The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-20

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MORE fighting is reported from Afghanis-
tan.
KRurP, the manufacturer of steel guns, is
dead
SHERBRooKE, Que, had 100000 fire last
week.
YELLOW fever still holds possession of
Key West
FAVORABLE weather for crops is reported
by the signal office.
Forty immense icebergs are drifting off
the Dominion coast
Ex-senator THURMAN refuses to be
candidate for governor
SEVEN cases of smallpox are known to
exist in New York city.
Mr. BLAINE is the guest of Mr.. Carnegie
at Bridge of Earn, Scotland.
FIRE at Saco Me-, Saturday destroyed
Thornton's block; loss 1000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and party visited
| the Thousand Islands Saturday.
SPEAKER CARLISLE says the revenue will
| be reduced in the next congress.
THE coffee market is again active, the up
ward movement being constant.
FIRE at Hammond & Sons iron works in
! Pttsburg caused a loss of 100000.
THE Metropolitan storage warehouse in
New York is burned. Loss 1921 600
ID. b. MosELY, founder of the Religious
! Herdld, died at Hartford, Ct, Sunday.
A METHODIST church at Fond du Lac,
! Wis, was burned Sunday; loss $4,000.
Lightning struck a church at Mount Oil
! vet Tenn. Frustrating one hundred persons.
THE Senter House and other buildings at
! Center Harbor, N H., were burned Sat
urday.
THE wheat surplus will he about &c, 600, 600
| bushels. The foreign demand continues
heavy.
IT is reported that the Gar will prevent
Ferdinand from accepting the Bulgarian
throne
ST. PAUL reports a shower of bugs, the
streets being covered to the depth of a foot
and more.
DRExEL, MORGAN & Co. have made an
offer of S2,50O,0OO for the Baltimore & Ohio
telegraph.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN sustained serious
accident at Carbonate, ILL.,, in leaping from
a carriage.
A COUNT of the cash in the national treas
ury was completed Monday and figured up
S05, 100000.
JACOB SHARP's sentence is four years and
! 5000 The customary stay of proceedings
has been granted.
THE formal notification of his excom-
municaton by name has been received by
Rev. DIR. McGlynn.
For the most part the New England
States have escaped the terrible heat that
prevails elsewhere.
NEW JERSEY farmers are cutting their
hay by moonlight in order to avoid the in
tense heat of the day.
THE New York syndicate which has been
| trying to corner the prune market was
forced to sell at a heavy loss.
A CYCLONE struck Quebec and uprooted
traas 6ftv fact i'm beipht. lpVplp1 chimneVS
and unroofed frail structures.
Miss JANE ANDREWS, teacher and a
writer of juvenile books, of New buryport,
Mass, is dead, aged fifty-two.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND participated in the
centennial celebration of the town of Gin
ton, n. Y, and made a speech
THE leading envelope manufacturers of
New England and New York have formed
a combination to maintain prices.
THE people of Paramount, Ind, blew up
a building with dynamite to prevent the
proposed opening of a liquor-saloon.
MOSES HILL of Littleton, aged eighteen,
was fatally injured recently at the Twin
Mountains by stone falling on him.
REPORTS from fourteen states east of the
Mississippi river show that the acreage in
grass is ten per cent more than last year.
THE st. Lawrence sugar refinery in Mon
treal was burned Friday, and three persons
We're killed by jumping out of window
IT is reported that President Cleveland
will visit st. Louis during the exposition
in October, and go from there to Atlanta.
V1CE-PREsIDENT HILL of the New York
stock exchange died suddenly Friday, while
announcing the death of a tellow-member
, A FIRE occurred in st. Joseph's orphan
; asylum, New York Saturday, and all bu
nine of two hundred children were rescued
GENERAL b. F. BUTLER and party were
given fine reception last Monday evening
by the summer visitors at Poland Springs
Maine.
A COLLISION and fire on the Burlington &
Missouri river railway III Nebraska de
stroyed thirteen loaded freight-cars and TIVE
locomotives.
: DURING a thunderstorm at a funeral il
i Mount Pleasant, Tenn, nine negroes wer
. killed by lightning. They had taken refug
under a tree.
A CYCLONE passed over New York cit.
, Sunday, unrootng buildings, destroyin!
/, trees and capsizing small boats. Probabl.
I some lives were lost.
, ROGERS PICKETT, the manager of tn
{ traders tea store in Boston, has been al
rested for running gift enterprise IN con
h nection with his store.
+ THE hux epidemic has assumed alarmin
t proportions in Batecourt, Roanoke, Bed
e ford and Amherst counties, Virginia. Th
V mortality has been greatest among children
e A wANToN murder occurred on Pennsyl
n vania avenue, Washington last week, tn
victim being j. G.. Kennedy, respecte
d citizen, and the murderer John Daily, a Ii
j. borer.
II AN accident occurred to the President
}. train on the return of the party from
: pleasant trip through the Thousand Islands
g The engineer was killed and the firema
S injured
. THE President and Mrs. Cleveland jou
'' neyed from Forestport to CaZenovia, wher
they are the guests of Secretary Fairchild
a They were received with enthusiasm alon
II the route.
. A SPECIAL from Little Rock Ark, says
) An important conference of the republica
. party leaders was held here Saturday nigh
- A resolution was passed favoring Blaine fo
"a the presidency.
h Mr.. BLAINE has been pressed to atten
l. the Parnell banquet at London this weel
n The political magnificence of the event
anticipated by gorgeous circular signe
>, by seventy-three Gladstonian members.
Is Mrs. PETER GLCHRIsT of West Hebron
il Washington county, n. Y, was burned
O death in her residence last week Thursda
4 morning. The house was destroyed. I'll
l. deceased was a widow aged eighty years.
-e TWENTY-FIVE bodies have thus far bee
s. recovered from the wreck of the yacl
IS Mystery" lost in a gale last week
he Canarsie Bay, n. j., and four more are y
$. missing, making the loss of life twenty-six
THE encouragement OF New Hampshi